Thursday, November 5, 2009

Animosity

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I think about this masterpiece just about everyday....This album saved my sanity during those teen years in the mid 80s. Then finally seeing them live with Poison Idea opening was the show of shows....What a bonkers-violent gig that was! Stuff of legend! ANIMOSITY is truly a fucking masterpiece of a album. Notice how side A is different than side B because of the timing of the recording by almost a year. Big difference but somehow works just like how Mark Twain changed gears in the middle of Huckleberry Finn. I know....apples and oranges but still...Punk-Thrash Perfection!

This is in my top 10... ever notice Woody Weatherman is wearing a Slayer shirt on the back photo of this record and Jeff Hanneman of Slayer is wearing a C.O.C. shirt on the back Cover of Hell Awaits released the same year?Thrash symmetry man!

I actually found out about COC around Technocracy...then found this and initially didn't like it (hey, I liked Simon Bob's vox). 20 years later Animosity's regular help on the iPod whenever i can make it to the gym...

But it should be because they are one of those bands it seems who have painstakingly listened to other sucessful punk bands prior and striped out the catchy riffs or rather small sections of riffs to piece together their own songs..its actually common practise for bands who can play (musos) and dont have any ideas of their own to do this

For example on kiss of death you can hear aint nothin to do by the dead boys and on hungrey child you hear stab your back by the damned.

Took me awhile to realise they are/were a rip off band but as I said cool..kind of

Maybe the very first hc/punk record I ever owned. Made everything else sound tame as hell. I remember not being sure if the record was defective or not because of all the little feedback squeeks all over it. An older friend assured me "That's part of the music!".Great job on the regular updates by the way. CH is my new favorite music blog!

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